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Meta Expands AI Services to Nigeria, Other African Users
Meta, an American multinational technology conglomerate, has announced the launch of Meta AI in seven countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, built…
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Instagram, Facebook to charge EU Users for Ad-Free Service
Meta Platforms (META.O) is looking to introduce ad-free subscription plans for Instagram and Facebook users in Europe, two people familiar…
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Meta Launches Threads App, Records 10 million Users
Ten million users signed up for Meta‘s newly launched Threads app in its first seven hours, the company’s chief Mark…
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Facebook, Instagram Users to Pay $12 monthly Verification Fee
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will launch a paid subscription service starting at $11.99 a month allowing users to verify…
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META Lifts Ban on Breasts for Transgender
A board that advises the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, Meta, has recommended that the social media giants end…
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BREAKING: Meta Restores WhatsApp Hours after Outage
WhatsApp messenger app has been restored by Meta, its parent company hours it was reported to be down across the…
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FG sues Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta over Adverts, demands N30bn
The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has said it filed a lawsuit at the Federal High Court, Abuja against…
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Facebook to Scrap ‘Nearby Friends’ and Other Location-Based Features
Meta platform, Facebook has announced that it would be discontinuing Nearby Friends, among other features, by the end of the…
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Meta Referred to Competition Tribunal Over Market Abuse in South Africa
Market abuse complaints against Facebook and its WhatsApp subsidiary have been escalated to the Competition Tribunal for abuse of dominance…
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Russia to Ban Instagram over ‘Calls to Commit Violent Acts’
Russian regulators said Friday that internet users will be blocked from accessing Instagram because it’s being used to call for…
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Disinformation: Facebook, Twitter Remove Accounts Targeting Ukrainians
Facebook and Twitter, last weekend, removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations,” one tied to Russia and another with connections to…
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African Content Creators to Earn More as Meta Launches Reels on Facebook
Meta said it is expanding the availability of Facebook Reels for iOS and Android to more than 20 countries across…
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Facebook’s Daily Active Users Drop To 1.92 Billion, Shares Tumble
For the very first time in its 18 years of existence, the total number of Daily Active Users (DAUs) in…
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CRYPTO: Facebook’s Libra Project Reportedly Halted due to Regulatory Pressure
Meta Platform Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram may finally be abandoning its grand cryptocurrency project due…
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WhatsApp Launches #YouSaid Campaign to Tackle Fake News
WhatsApp has announced the launch of #YouSaid, a campaign aimed at educating people on how to scrutinize and verify the…
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WhatsApp to let Users Set all Chats to disappear by default
WhatsApp will be adding new functionality to its disappearing messages feature, which will let users set messages in a chat…
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Meta Launches Business Coach Tool on WhatsApp for African SMBs
Today, Meta announced the launch of Facebook Business Coach an innovative and easily-accessible way for owners of small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs)…
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Facebook changes Company name to Meta
Facebook has announced a change of its company name to Meta. The name change was announced at the Facebook Connect…
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